[thehelmosengine]

Well this is a dorky little shuttle craft I scratchbuilt yesterday to use for a scene in my production. I nicknamed it the cuttlefish. Name stuck. Well I just need to paint it to finish it. I was happy to have started and finished building the guy in one day. Fastest ever for me. If I could just keep that pace I could finish much more movie stuff in a somewhat timely manner. Well here is the progress so far, starting with my doodle I drew. Enjoy!

This post has been edited by thehelmosengine: 22 July 2010 - 06:34 PM

[thehelmosengine]

I forgot to start a new thread for that yesterday. That post was from then. Tonight I painted it. I painted a base coat of dark gray (5 parts semi gloss black, 3 parts semi gloss white), then painted a thinned coat of white on top of it for shading. I used MR COLOR lacquers. For the windshield I used alclad gloss black lacquer, (I masked off the windshield, although not perfectly) then used Tamiya Synthetic Lacquer clear coat spray can to seal it. I used this for the whole ship. Then I used testors enamel silver and a fine brush to detail the venting. Then I messed up the windshield and I had to redo it, so I just clear flat coated the ship then. Then I redid the windshield, and then did the red masking, with foo's hairspray and salt masking trick for a splash of color. Then I matte coated again. Last I redid the clear coat on the windshield a little thick on purpose, and let it dry at an angle. I still might go back and completely smooth out the viewing windshield, but maybe not if time is tight. Maybe I can justify saying it's a little bumpier than normal from space debris. I still need to put some decals on, and maybe repaint the skis to be solid, but that's for Monday probably. I didn't get to finish the Freya this week, so maybe I will get to Monday or the next few days after that. Sorry for the blurry photos, I didn't have much time to setup a tripod. I'll post better ones maybe tomorrow. Well here is the progress for the shuttlecraft cuttlefish so far. Enjoy!

[thehelmosengine]

Phone pics

[PetarB]

Very nice - quick scratchbuild, and great result, love the weathered red stripe!

[kuro41]

Thats a beauty! Its awesome!

[thehelmosengine]

Petarb and kuro thanks guys! I am trying to get these props ready to go. I've been putting off the other mecha since I need this shuttlecraft and my huge space cruiser for the first scenes. I really want to finish those mecha too. I'll post the Alexandretta when I get done with it hopefully soon. Thanks again guys!

[kuro41]

When you film, are you going to do recasts of the shuttle craft of will you just duplicate it digitally?

[thehelmosengine]

Well since it really only shows up in one scene so far I don't know if I have a need to even have duplicates, but I would probably digitally do it if I needed to. Although I suppose (like always I guess hehe) if u want a copy I could cast it for you after I film. So far this shuttlecraft just carries a main character to the space cruiser before a battle ensues.